This book used a fictional character named Beatrice to illustrate the contrasting ideas of a real-life medieval princess and a fairytale-like princess that are now very popular in movies and storybooks. The ideas in this book are to present comprehensible facts about how it is like to be a royalty or a princess in medieval times. The visualization of the book includes how a princess acts in daily life- for example, the kinds of food they eat, the clothes she wears, activities she does, and how she gets along with other people in the castle. All these to provide truths that being a princess, or a royalty is not always magical and fabulous as most people think. The book also shows fundamental facts about ancient history approximately 1000 years ago.
When I was reading the book, there was at some point a feeling of "Nah- I don't want to be a medieval princess- it's kind of gross." The reason why is because some of the ideas in the book are concepts that I never thought growing up thinking about royalty. For example, the thought expressed on page 10 of the book that as a royalty they seldom sweep the floor thus, the bones from their food, and the dirt piled up on the floor. It was unexpected for me! But of course, that was around 1000ish years ago and there have been several changes over time in the present world. However, in my opinion, the book presented an intelligent way to let young people know that being a princess, or a royalty is absolutely a duty rather than a love story fantasy and that there's more to just wearing gowns and tiaras.
Reviewed by: Farah E.
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